The Road to the FIFA World Cup - South Africa 2010

"It's like Capello has brought royalty on".

If you squint while he's sprinting down the touchline he does look a little like Prince Phillip.

Rosicky wrote:Does Beckham still even play football outside England matchs?!

No

He's retired from club football

I think Pierre said it before, but I'll repeat it, having a player from the MLS in the England squad is a fucking joke.

Sure, the players and the team are overrated, but we're not this desperate.

Another $h!t goal

All hail capello

England are amazing!

Hip Hip Heurelho™ wrote:I think Pierre said it before, but I'll repeat it, having a player from the MLS in the England squad is a fucking joke.

Sure, the players and the team are overrated, but we're not this desperate.

Saying that, in matches like this beckham is still more useful than Walcott imo.

OMG WE ARE AWESOME!!!

In 10 minutes tomorrow's Newspaper headlines will have changed dramatically.

Luis wrote:In 10 minutes tomorrow's Newspaper headlines will have changed dramatically.

We are favourites for the world cup now

5

Quite a funny scoreline now

The first half was definitely capello's fault

We've scored 5 goals today?

Bizarre performance.

COTR wrote:5

Quite a funny scoreline now

The first half was definitely capello's fault

I still don't understand what Capello is trying to do, he's always confusing me. Why no Ashley Young? Why no Owen? Why Heskey, surely he's pointless without Owen? Why agent Orange? And still why both Lampard and cockroach, why does this problem still not go away?

Watching England is a mind f@ck.

COTR wrote:5

Quite a funny scoreline now

The first half was definitely capello's fault

Yes, nothing beats good ol' 4-4-2

I don't get why the commentators were wanking over Walcott, his touch, decision making and crossing was absolute gash.

Gerrard was awful as well. Once we get to the Croatia or Ukraine games we need to actually decide who to drop out of Gerrard and Lampard because that formation in the first half was ridiculous.

Brown is a confusing one. Especially against a team who aren't going to attack

It makes life pretty hard for the centre mids when he puts out a team with so little balance. Who do they pass to

When joe cole comes back you'll find out just what capello intends to do with the team. If he is on the bench then it is another hopeless cause

I think we should definately drop Gerrard for ever, he's not fit to wear the England strip.

With regards to the Kazakhstan goal, it's absolutely comical defending from Ashley Cole - who's lack of a right foot really cost him - but a) he's not the first England player to give a way a goal in similar circumstances and b) the goalscorer was able to walk through our central defence without being followed by a marker. So the booing he received was absolutely outrageous imo.

Very satisfying last 20 mins, though it must be said that Kazakhstan were tiring.

Anyone see Capello's reaction when Ashley Cole made the pass back?

Olé wrote:

COTR wrote:5

Quite a funny scoreline now

The first half was definitely capello's fault

Yes, nothing beats good ol' 4-4-2

True

4-5-1 is a much better option against a terrible team with a non footballing right back, the best forward out of position and three centre mids

I would like to see Gerrard's passing accuracy rate tonight too. Pleat wanking over 2-3 hollywood passes, yet ignoring the 5 yard misplaced simple passes and other ridiculous long ball attempts.

S4P - 13 wrote:I would like to see Gerrard's passing accuracy rate tonight too. Pleat wanking over 2-3 hollywood passes, yet ignoring the 5 yard misplaced simple passes and other ridiculous long ball attempts.

I would have liked to have even seen a few misplaced passes from lampard. It would have at least meant he was doing something

COTR wrote:

S4P - 13 wrote:I would like to see Gerrard's passing accuracy rate tonight too. Pleat wanking over 2-3 hollywood passes, yet ignoring the 5 yard misplaced simple passes and other ridiculous long ball attempts.

I would have liked to have even seen a few misplaced passes from lampard. It would have at least meant he was doing something

Was 2 assists not enough for you coater?

Parks lives wrote:I don't get why the commentators were wanking over Walcott, his touch, decision making and crossing was absolute gash.

Same old hype. Same old English commentators. Walcott's decision making is okay, but he can't make those first time pass, or that exquisite bergkamp touch to bring it down properly. His footwork is seriously He really looks like an athlete trying to learn football at times. But then again he is one of the better players for england today, so one could figure how poor they are. Just because they got some crappy goals, they aren't strong in any sense.

Wow

Set pieces are just thrilling SP

Its 0-0 between Ukraine and Croatia after 60mins.

Lets hope it stays that way.

COTR wrote:Wow

Set pieces are just thrilling SP

Well it still counts as an assist.

I love this idea that when Gerrard has a bad game, everyone has a bad game. Keep it up, it's quite entertaining.

Pretty much everybody did have a bad game...

All attacking players looked void of how to unlock the mighty Kazakhstan...

Rooney was the only decent player, playing his free role wandering all over the pitch to create plays. But some of his crosses were awful. Anyway, like everyone else already said, it was just a few setpieces that will make England's performance seem better than it actually was. But the players are starting to get a bit of confidence, which is what they need at this point in time, more than playing silky smooth football.

What's the best game to watch now:

Sweden-Portugal
Bulgaria-Italy
Germany-Russia



I'm thinking of going with the 3rd one.

3rd one of course!